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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: Steve Youngs <sryoungs@bigpond.net.au>
Cc: Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Increase recursive symlink limit from 5 to 8
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 10:49:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1073814570.4431.3.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <microsoft-free.87isjj0y1e.fsf@eicq.dnsalias.org>

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> 6 does seem pretty low.  What was the reason for setting it there?  Is
> there a downside to increasing it?

It was reduced down from 8 because it can lead to stack overflows.
Recursive links like this usually point at a quite broken filesystem
setup too afaik.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-01-11  9:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-07 23:12 [PATCH] Increase recursive symlink limit from 5 to 8 Petter Reinholdtsen
2004-01-11  1:03 ` Petter Reinholdtsen
2004-01-11  7:01   ` Steve Youngs
2004-01-11  9:37     ` Peter Osterlund
2004-01-11  9:49     ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2004-01-16  0:45       ` GOTO Masanori
2004-01-16  0:56         ` Måns Rullgård
2004-01-16  1:25         ` viro
2004-01-16 15:46           ` Andries Brouwer
2004-01-16  3:08         ` Steve Youngs
2004-01-11 12:10     ` Felipe Alfaro Solana

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